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WOMEN EMPOWERMENT |
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Women Empowerment - Srilatha Batliwala It is the process, and the outcome of the process, by which women challenge gender-based discrimination against women in all the institutions and structures of society. |
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VALUES of an Empowered Woman PERSONAL KNOWLEDGE
explore and trust own thoughts, emotion, desires and experiences;
recognize positive and negative characteristics;
set goals and work toward them;
know about positive value assertion, stubbornness and decisiveness;
knows self through own creative work; |
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VALUES of an Empowered Woman know personal truth and trust her intuition;
credit self for her thoughts, feelings, and actions;
emphasize self-knowledge over other-knowledge;
discern real wants and needs from those forced upon her by the problems, dependencies and other sources of her oppression. |
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VALUES of an Empowered Woman SELF – DEFINING
Create her own definition of herself rather than accept others’ definition of her.
Views herself as a complete human person.
Struggles to overcome conventional stereotypical picture of femininity (submissive, quiet, unintelligent)
Has the courage to try non-traditional behaviors. |
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VALUES of an Empowered Woman Develops her own standards and values, determining for herself what is important for her to do.
Acknowledges her personhood as separate from the family or a man. She defines herself as a complete, whole human person, not a helpmate to man, a mother, a housewife, or server of others’ needs. |
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VALUES of an Empowered Woman PERSONAL POWER
Personally strong, not from dominating others, but from their love, trust and faith in themselves and other women. It involves being active, assertive, and skillful.
Do not require support from man to survive. Are self-reliant, independent, and autonomous. Have a sense of purpose, achievement and dignity.
Self-governing and seeks guidance from themselves. Trusts own experiences and have a sense of self-worth and positive self-image. |
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VALUES of an Empowered Woman AUTHENTICITY
Acting on own values, convictions, desires, emotions needs, capabilities, and opinions; honest to self and others about one’s self;
Emotionally spontaneous, throwing oneself into projects, beliefs and feelings despite sex role stereotypes and pressures;
Ignore criticisms if you are doing something you enjoy;
be honest without shame. |
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VALUES of an Empowered Woman CREATIVITY
Adaptable to changes and have increased diversity in one’s thinking.
Uses anger, aggression, assertion, the balance of power conflict, competition, and success in new ways. Especially important is using anger creatively.
Struggles for authenticity through personal creativity by reshaping visions of themselves, their goals and taking risks. |
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VALUES of an Empowered Woman Makes choices and decisions based on knowledge of alternatives leads to concrete creative action. Creative work involves developing one’s life plans by listening to one’s inner voice and finding one’s own identity. As women struggle for identity, creativity emerges.
Achieving personal freedom and emotional liberation from social patterns that keep women from establishing personal identity leads to creativeness. |
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VALUES of an Empowered Woman PHYSICAL STRENGTH
Strength, vitality, health, stamina, and fearlessness are needed for women to accomplish their goals
Physical power and physical equality with men are also needed. |
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VALUES of an Empowered Woman EQUALITY
The right of women and men to live as free and equal human beings, equality should exist in all areas of life:
women’s constitutional rights as citizens
work
access to wealth
responsibilities within a marriage including child rearing and the financial and physical maintenance of the home
align treatment of problems |
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VALUES of an Empowered Woman MUTUALITY IN RELATIONSHIPS
Values non-hierarchical relationships which are based on mutuality. That is women are encouraged to choose relationships based on mutual respect, understanding, admiration giving and cooperation and therefore foster mutual growth. They are discouraged from choosing relationships based on dependencies, role-playing suffocating love, or a double standard. |
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VALUES of an Empowered Woman ECONOMIC INDEPENDENCE
Women must learn to understand economics and how to make money. This will enable us to be financially self sufficient and therefore economically independent of men. |
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VALUES of an Empowered Woman WOMEN IDENTIFICATION
Women value themselves and other women as women:
crediting women for what they have been responsible for and affirming women’s capacity to be capable, intelligent and ethical.
encouragement of the nurturance of the women spirit and identity reflected in the awareness of and the preservation of women’s cultural heritage for future generations. |
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VALUES of an Empowered Woman Concept of sisterhood wherein women share personal concerns and common unity based on their understanding and love for themselves and other women.
To liberate themselves, women must stop selling out their identities as women by rejecting restrictive gender roles, stereotypes and by claiming all territory as women’s territory.
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VALUES of an Empowered Woman FREEDOM FROM OPPRESSION
Being able to grow and achieve without restrictions in society. This includes freedom of movement, freedom of choice, freedom from fear of male violence and freedom to express one’s ideas and opinions without constraint, being brushed aside or being cut down. |
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VALUES of an Empowered Woman HAVING POLITICAL POWER IN SOCIETY
Involved in making decisions shaping society, to exercise their own voice and to have the power to influence the decisions being made in society. |
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FOR EVERY WOMAN by Nancy Smith For every woman who is tired of acting weak
when she knows she is strong,
There is a man who is tired of appearing strong
when he feels vulnerable.
For every woman who is tired of acting dumb,
There is a man who is burdened with the constant expectation of “knowing everything”. |
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For every woman who is tired of being called
an “emotional female”
There is a man who is denied the right to
weep and be gentle.
For every woman who feels “tied down”
by her children,
There is a man who is denied the full
pleasure of shared parenthood.
For every woman who is denied meaningful
employment and equal pay,
There is a man who must bear full responsibility
for another human being. |
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For every woman who was not taught
the intricacies of the automobile,
There is a man who was not taught
the satisfaction of cooking.
For every woman who takes a step toward her own liberation,
There is a man who finds that the way to freedom has been made a little easier. |
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